Is a lot of the leadership being arrested now? I hope so. Do you have a link to that info?
I'm not making anything out to be "hopeless" or a "scary bogeyman". I'm just looking at realities we're dealing with. The leadership of blm are ultimately about marxism, by their own words and admission. Cultural, economic and political marxism. They are not about the mainstream black culture that is culturally, and in other ways, less leftist than the blm organization.
There was a lot of grassroots sentiment fueling the initial Floyd protests. But what we've seen the last 3-4 weeks has mostly the features of a top-down hierarchy organizing and driving this. A lot of these mobs that attack statues are half-white to mostly white (even the Confederate memorial mobs in the south have included a lot of whites). The great majority of these people, their leaders, planners, and sources of money, their allies in the corporate world, in media, among local, state, and federal Dim politicians - all of these groups are ideological hard-Left true believers. They won't really be affected or fragmented by what you suggest, at least not in the short term. Long term is different and there is obvious value in the long term approach for future sake, but to take down this current insurrection we must use different tactics - they aren't going to turn on each other for cultural or political reasons b/c they're all too much in unison on that stuff. Now you may get some to roll on others in exchange for lighter sentences but that's a different thing.
Is a lot of the leadership being arrested now? I hope so. Do you have a link to that info?
I'm not making anything out to be "hopeless" or a "scary bogeyman". I'm just looking at realities we're dealing with. The leadership of blm are ultimately about marxism, by their own words and admission. Cultural, economic and political marxism. They are not about the mainstream black culture that is culturally, and in other ways, less leftist than the blm organization.
There was a lot of grassroots sentiment fueling the initial Floyd protests. But what we've seen the last 3-4 weeks has mostly the features of a top-down hierarchy organizing and driving this. A lot of these mobs that attack statues are half-white to mostly white (even the Confederate memorial mobs in the south have included a lot of whites). The great majority of these people, their leaders, planners, and sources of money, their allies in the corporate world, in media, among local, state, and federal Dim politicians - all of these groups are ideological hard-Left true believers. They won't really be affected or fragmented by what you suggest, at least not in the short term. Long term is different and there is obvious value in the long term approach for future sake, but to take down this current insurrection we must use different tactics - they aren't going to turn on each other for cultural or political reasons b/c they're all too much in unison on that stuff. Now you may get some to roll on others in exchange for lighter sentences but that's a different thing.